"Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> This week I updated my kubuntu 22.04LTS to 24.04LTS, and as a result I had to
> reconfigure and recompile povray3.8 beta2.
>
> To my amazement I got this error when running the new executable:
> Parse Error: Viewing angle has to be smaller than 180 degrees.
>
> After some DuckDuckGoing I found this solution
> https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/issues/460
> and after replacing all HUGE_VALs into HUGE_FINITY_VALs my povray was working
> again.
>
> Is anybody going to change this in the povray source code, so that there will be
> a new version with this patch?
> More general, is there anybody, since Christopher Lipka left, still maintaining
> povray?
> What is the future of povray?
> Is there a future for povray, or is 3.8 beta2 the last official version?
>
> Cheers
> Ton.

Hi, I tested the patch too, and it worked for me on every machine I tried it on:
an Intel based Mac OS Big Sur, Windows 10, and Ubuntu 24.04. Did anyone see any
objection to the "Fedore40" patch provided in this post:
https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/issues/460#issuecomment-2151339517 ?

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